Formula 1 Explained By An Idiot

Formula 1 often referred to as the Pinnacle of Motorsports it's been the face of racing for so many years now and I a very very intellectual F1 fan am going to attempt to explain it except I'm not exactly very intellectual now Formula 1 with all of its Glamour Beauty speed adrenaline and Engineering is essentially 20 Rich guys driving in circles thank you so much for watching nothing just an incident now of course Formula 1 isn't just 20 millionaires driving in circles but the circles are on crack although not going to lie it's kind of kind

of accurate but you know Formula 1 is so much more than that and I'm going to bring you guys deep down the rabbit hole obviously some of you are probably watching this because you want to try to get into Formula 1 which is relatively pretty easy as you can probably tell but if you're already a DI hard fan okay I kind of don't know why the hell you're still watching this video but hey you know this video is going to be one hell of a journey so grab your popcorn clear your tears away if you're

a Ferrari fan grab your Red Bull or your Monster Energy and this is going to be Formula 1 explained by an idiot [Music] [Music] all right so starting off with the basic stuff F1 is a sport where 10 teams with two drivers each race for points that tally up to a drivers World Championship which is equivalent to like the Piston Cup the F1 season starts in late February and ends in November December to February is essentially the season break where there's no F1 aka the time where I lose my sanity and curl up into a

ball and start crying but it's also the time where some spicy F1 news gets released in work terms it's like hearing your favorite manager got fired or a cooworker worker moved to the rival's business so there are 24 different races this year and in each race drivers essentially score points and the one with the most points wins the championship points are only given to drivers who finish within the top 10 essentially saying skill issue to the other 10 drivers on the grid once again most UNS supportive driver of the Su my B but aside from

that these points also tally up to a constructor's championship which is the combined points of the two drivers in a team the team with the most points from both drivers takes the Constructor Championship and the higher the team plays the more money that they get now every single team in F1 has two drivers there's no way around that you can't have three probably just a reserve driver which is essentially somebody to back up the other two drivers in case somebody gets sick so every team has to have two drivers except for Aston Martin because L

stroll is incapable of being a good driver you've got to lift it no h you idiot [Laughter] man how can you be so useless man now each team before the season starts develops a car that follows the regulations set by the FIA if you don't know what the FIA is it stands for forever an insufferable pain in the ass no Mikey no no Mike that was so not right so the FIA basically makes these regulations that all teams have to follow to make their cars and each team has to try to develop the fastest car

which will help their drivers win points now the development of the car also involves engines so far there are four engine manufacturers in F1 which are Mercedes Ferrari Honda and Renault teams will have to choose an engine to work with and they have to create the most aerodynamically efficient car on the grd because if they don't something like this [Music] happens all right guys so ready up for me to nerd out I'm straight up going to look like this and this time I'm going to be speedrunning some F1 terms you need to know pretty much

the ones you need to know to understand everything that I'm going to say cuz if I don't include this part I'll actually just sound like a professional yapper throughout the video video okay so here we go pull position it's basically where a driver qualifies with the fastest time and starts first on the grid shaa clle is very familiar with that but is incapable of winning from that position next is a Podium no it's not the thing that Joe Biden stands on when he's trying to deliver a speech big emphasis on the word trying America is

a nation that can be defined in a single word I was going to foot him foot instead a podium in F1 is where a driver finishes within the top three essentially second or third as they get to stand on a Podium after a race and potentially break break another person's trophy another term is back markers the teams or drivers that are all the way back of the competition they're just there all the way back there which is something that Nikita mapin is very familiar with moving on we have P1 P2 and P3 the P is

for position and the number after that is well it's kind of obvious if if you do not understand that I swear to God there is no hope for you to understand Formula 1 hit stops are where drivers change their tires and you start to hear flies in your [Music] ears and finally DRS which makes your car go faster as its rear wi opens which allows for Less drag and it can only be active in the DRS zones of a racetrack if you don't know what it stands for once again then this video will certainly help

you out then he then they start catching up he'll be grateful you know what DRS stands for Noah a suck my [Music] dick all right so now we have the race weekends it's essentially the schedule of an F1 race which takes place on Friday Saturday and Sunday Friday is free practice where drivers familiarize themselves with the track Saturday is qualifying which determines where you place on the grid and Sunday is the race day but not going to lie I'm kind of not really satisfied with that explanation a more accurate way to put the race weekend

is essentially Friday everybody is delusional Saturday Ferrari fans are extremely happy and on Sunday Red Bull fans are extremely happy as we hear the Dutch national anthem for the 23rd time in a year textbook stuff Max no come on stop this okay so what happens once the race goes on what happens after it's lights out and away we go well believe it or not it's not just cars going in circles over and over although most of it is pretty much that but no you know there's something called tire wear which I'm going to explain as

clearly as possible in bedroom terms there's the hard tires which last the longest there's the soft tires which finishes the fastest medium tires are kind of the in between wet tires is used when the track gets spicy and slippery and the final Tire compound is intermediates which are used when the track is somewhat wet which is about 1 to 3 ml damp whereas for wets it's ideal for when the track is really wet like something around 4 ml damp and above I just sounded like the biggest nerd in history my goodness pardon my F1 addiction

guys it's actually incurable like I would be watching F1 while doing literally anything to the point where I would run out of content to watch and start watching videos of a monkey putting out the fastest lap in a [Music] race anyways we have pit stops so this is where the team switch out their tires in a race teams are required to pit at least once and change to a different tire compound so once again in bedroom terms when you're hard and she's wet you probably don't last as long as a pit stop which is like

sub three seconds I have no idea if you guys understood that but just as a rundown of what it's like when F1 teams pit Red Bull's pit stops usually go like this while Ferrari's pit stops are pretty much this look they're not even there there's not a single intervenient Tire in sight they came in whether that was a driver who called it or as for strategy different races means different tires can be used for example there could be races that require drivers to have two pit stops because their tires don't last as long or some

people would go on a One-Stop strategy and risk it all strategies can change depending on the situation but essentially the teams opt for the most optimal tire combo except for Ferrari just trying everything box car box confirm not oh why were they telling you [Music] to now with all of the info on Formula 1 which you guys just had thrown into your faces like Logan Sergeant whenever he sees a barrier you're probably wondering which team should I support and well that's an amazing question because me being you know a very intelligent Formula 1 fan I'm

going to give you guys the most accurate guide on F1 teams and drivers trust me you will never see more accurate information in the world than this video it's a Ferrari it's a box Ferrari so this team has pretty much had depressed drivers and fans since 2007 they do completely abysmal team strategies that make you think that you're high on crack and has completely destroyed their past Legacy of being the strongest team in Formula 1 their driver charlea has probably spent a million dollars on his therapist after the tragedy also called the 2022 season and

he's probably going to spend more after his contract extension now if you don't know how this contract stuff works basically these drivers are like employees and can get replaced or kept when their contract expires like the other driver Carlos SS who is going to be replaced by Lewis Hamilton in 2025 hey guys is it is it hammer time yet copy we are checking change your car you've got a problem change youring car next up is Red Bull their theme song is pretty much the Dutch national anthem or some of their fans started supporting them probably

because they're Dutch or their team has been losing too much to the point where supporting Red Bull is their only way of coping Red Bull also has the literal F35 fighter jet as their Formula 1 car since their Chief technical officer has an entire research facility built into his head as for their drivers their main driver has daddy issues and their second driver forgot how to drive in 2023 I've crashed it I've crashed it almost immediately no Mikey no no Mikey that was so not right as for Mercedes their team principal has a deep hatred

for headsets and they used to dominate a couple years ago but now they completely forgot how to build a car now Mercedes fans are some of the funniest people out there but also some of the most ungodly annoying fans in the world particularly team LH AKA Lewis Hamilton glazers still talking about him being atime world champion which I do understand if you find the 2021 season controversial but but these guys are literally putting atime world champion literally everywhere like I would see comments saying that lwis is atime world champion in a YouTube video analyzing the

Cars movie now of course I'm not going to Target all of you Mercedes fans out there there's some of you guys who are you know actually normal but to all of the teamlh fans out there instead of yapping about how the FIA is racist instead use that energy to pray that lwis has a good therapist since he's going to Ferrari in 2025 also mercedes's other driver George Russell has a crippling addiction of crashing into people to the outside to cover off Carlos SS trying to go wide and there you go George Russ just he just

F turned into me and radio check I'm moving up and down a roller coaster McLaren is basically the papaya team they're orange and a team with a really really rich history and a strong one as well as long as we decide to ignore their you know McLaren Honda partnership overall they're a strong Powerhouse in F1 along with Mercedes Ferrari and Red Bull as for their drivers Lando Norris can't finish P1 probably until he's like 73 years old and is mentally incapable of saying anything normal in an interview men's had a good mustache it might be

that I I'm not able to grow while Oscar piastri is really talented and so happy that he literally looks like this now Alpine is what I call the schizophrenic team like literally these guys are fighting absolutely no one other than their own imaginations they're just a team that's just there they don't stand out but if you like a car that's pink like one of my friends who doesn't know Jack about F1 then sure you can definitely support them now what about their drivers you know how good are they well all you need to know about

them is that they're both French okay on to the next team James please abort the Fest lap attempt before the end of lap for Williams money ruined their capability to keep up in recent times they've had a rich history like the other big powerhouses Williams used to be a back marker team for a couple of years but their comeback has been slow but strong I could say the same for my academics actually never mind not really I've actually been doing awful I'm just deluding myself anyways as for their drivers Logan sergeant and Alex Alin one

of them doesn't know what a kilometer is and the other one is very nice that was honestly the best summary I could come up for these two I'm going to kill [Music] myself Aston Mar showed huge promise at the start of the 2023 season until they scrambled like maniacs not knowing how to develop their car also yeah guys throughout the season teams in F1 can introduce upgrades to their car as long as they don't reach the cost cap which is a limit of how much they can spend throughout the year now most of the time

upgrades work brilliantly except for whatever Aston Martin has been putting into their cars halfway throughout 2023 when it comes to their drivers one of them is a 75-year-old rookie who makes Tik toks every day but still keeps up with the competition and their other driver is so consistently garbage that another team even roasted him in an interview dominating all right one more this is like Azo and stroll you you having fun with this you all right with this guys I can get an off of both of you you let the theme down H saber and

the RB Formula 1 team now these three are just there you know it's really sad they don't stand out they're essentially the back markers and when it comes to their drivers One driver is allergic to finishing in the podiums another got his wife pregnant after getting po position this one is the type to get friend zoned the other guy is a Finnish Australian who posts pcks of his butt online another dude is planning to open a restaurant but never does it despite having millions of dollars and the final driver is a high performance athlete I'm

a high performance athlete athletes sweat sweat baby sweat sweat now so far throughout the start of the video and until now I've been saying that F1 is literally the Pinnacle of Motorsports apart from the Cars movie of course but what makes F1 so good well it's the crashes and accidents which usually go like this super soft rubber on now ready to attack wait wait what's the problem took it there a wheel in the so crashes and accidents in F1 are not just entertaining but they can cause the track to be dangerous and this results in

flags being waved during a session one of them is the yellow flag single ones which are usually waved when a car goes off track or a minor incident happens while double yellow flags are for hazardous things next up is the red flag which are for major incidents like Joe guu getting his car turned into a fidget spinner shaa Clair crashing in Monaco for like the 50th time and Sergio Perez in literally every race in 2023 now there's also other flags like the blue flag which warns slower cars that a faster one is approaching them there's

the Black Flag for a penalty warning or a disqualification green flag which means that the race is on again and finally The Checkered Flag where drivers decide the winner through a chess game after the race that was a joke in case you guys couldn't tell another amazing part of F1 are the team radios which my boy Fernando Alonzo Here is known for some iconic ones like these I have no breaks no tires we are out of the points I me we try to do whatever but I don't don't forget that there's also Kimmy reinan who

talks more on the radio than he does anywhere else Famous by you to yeah anyway hey hey steering wheel somebody tell him to give it to me come on in F1 there's also rivalries like Charles and Max throughout the start of the 20122 Season until Ferrari completely destroyed Charles's mental health there's also the iconic 2021 season which also had a rivalry between Max and Lewis where these two were so attracted to each other in the race that the FIA almost gave them a penalty for public display of affection all right so next up are the

rules which are made by the FIA who decide on who gets punished when they break the rules and well they are known for some pretty controversial decisions which really just explains the forever and insufferable pain in the ass but anyways here's me speedrunning some of the most important rules in F1 so track limits if four wheels of your car gets off the white lines of a track they blow you up if you're speeding in the pit Lane you're going too fast they blow you up overtaking rules you kiss another car they blow you up and

lastly the final and most important rule if you're romang Gran you actually blow up let's go and get him yeah I have it I have it printed all all right so the next aspect of Formula 1 are its team principles now these guys are pretty much the leader of their teams and are the people who are guiding them to Victory now the team principal of Mercedes Toto wolf is known for printing things out and is pretty much a Mafia Boss turned into Pooky bear in recent Seasons that's harassment next up is Christian Herer the team

principal of Red Bull he got unbelievably roasted by Martin brundle Jame you're too old to have driven here really I am too old to have driven here but uh you would have liked it yeah shami wasn't fast enough to get to Formula 1 and there's also the team principal of Aston Martin Mike crack I'm not going to say anything about his name next up is James vs who still gives severe nightmares to valter botas they really doing this he's F it's James please abort the fastest lap attempt for the end of lap next is Andrea

Stella the team principal for McLaren I honestly didn't even know this guy was team principal like I still think it's Pooky bear Zack Brown because like he's just 10 times more entertaining despite him being cringey in some certain moments a river diry finally it's going to be gter steina now I know he was replaced recently but piss off you know he's still in my heart anyway Gunter is the type of guy to swear nine times in a sentence with only five words in it he does not smash my door tell him that if he doesn't

want to come back he betters me now yeah he smashed mying office door so that is Formula 1 and the best explanation that I can come up for it it's obviously you know the most accurate explanation of the sport but I might still have probably missed a couple of things throughout making this video so if I did miss out on anything be sure to let me know but what I do know though is that even if I might have fumbled I didn't fumble as hard as L stroll did in 2023 thank you so much for

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